There was no "Uncertain Choice" When Picking Up this Novel

*I won this book through Goodreads' First Reads Giveaway*

I will forever refer to this book as "The Nun Book", since my best friend saw that the convent was a part of the story and ran with it. 

Don't worry, Dato, the book lives up to the hype we gave it. 

So, yes, our main character, Rosemarie, has been promised to enter a convent on her 18th birthday UNLESS she can fall in love before that. Now, I know what you're thinking: "Oh my God this is going to be so corny". Surprisingly, it's not totally. Rosemarie is a pretty levelheaded and intelligent main character, even though the time period itself (not to mention the YA genre) calls for a damsel in distress. She is quite the realistic character as well, showing uncertainties and rationalizing all aspects of things instead of stubbornly thinking her way is the ONLY way. 

Now the suspense? It's not the best. I mean, I knew most of what was going to happen, either because I'm getting good at figuring it out on my own or its just kind of obvious. HOWEVER, it's manageable. To me, there are three ways to do suspense. Either it's:

1)Totally catching me off guard and my mind is spinning
2)I figured it out but the characters soon did as well
3)I figured it out and want to bang the characters' heads against a wall because they're freaking idiots

This book went with the number 2 approach, so, while I knew where the story was heading, the characters themselves were not too far behind. 

Other minor things were that the romance part was the corniest, but I mean it's three dudes going after one girl...I don't think you can not be corny with that. Also, the narrative switches from Rosemarie to "another character", which you figure out soon enough anyway. The first time it happens, though, the font changes and, since you're technically not supposed to know who it is yet, there's no warning of the POV change. This got confusing at first, since I was trying to figure out if it was an error or, if not, who the other character was that was speaking. Once you get past this first POV change, the rest of the transitions are fine. 

So, overall, it's a great book. I had a great time reading it and I highly recommend it to anyone who is 2000% done with the YA genre. Because, let me tell you, I am totally irritated with what is currently coming out of it, but there is every once in a while that a book comes out that makes me not want to burn the entire genre to the ground. This is definitely one of them.